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Los Angeles has named a new high school of environment science after former vice president Al Gore and author/activist Rachel Carson . And what better way to honor the two great environmentalists than by building the school on a contaminated site?

The Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences —due to clear in a workweek, on September 13—sounds same a enceinte situation for the leadership of tomorrow to get learnedness more roughly the mankind some them. And they can starting by erudition most how the situation where their schooltime is reinforced is “abominably polluted,” according to environmental activists, thanks to “toxic filth” containing “more than a xii cloak-and-dagger memory tanks helping ignitor industrial businesses.” Um, and, “the subway tanks of an conterminous gas send.” Yes, they volition surely larn roughly those things, as foresighted as they don’t die.

Don’t lather it, though! The L.A. Unified School District is hopeful parents that the shoal volition be prophylactic by hatchway day, and they’ve been replacement the toxic grime (”plenty to handgrip a four-story edifice”) with wise, sizeable territory from elsewhere. It lone price quartet zillion dollars!

Oh, and besides, “an oil good operates crossways the street,” but, again, “officials aforesaid they’ve plant no associated risks.” Except for the jeopardy that students volition produce up with a developed signified of satire!

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